Professor Winter featured as Cancer Today cover story

Cancer is both personal and professional for Jessica Winter, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and biomedical engineering. 

While undergoing treatment for breast cancer in 2011, Winter decided to change her research focus from basic scientific research to figuring out how to turn her lab’s discoveries into diagnostic tools that could benefit patients more quickly. Her journey as a scientist and cancer survivor is the cover story of Cancer Today magazine’s Winter 2015/2016 issue. 

Winter is an established leader in nanobiotechnology through the development of magnetic quantum dots for cell and molecular separations. Her primary research interest is the exploration of the relationship between nanoparticles and biological elements, an area that has been continuously expanding beyond applications in health care. 

She has received numerous honors for her work, including being elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2016. Winter was also named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014, TechColumbus’ Inventor of the Year in 2013 and Ohio State’s Early Inventor of the Year in 2012. Her other research interests include cell and tissue engineering and neural prosthetics.